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After that experience, Sun began the colorful website DigsMagazine.com as a “home and living guide for the post-college, pre-parenthood, quasi-adult generation.” The site breaks into four categories: lounge, nourish, host and laze. “I thought that these were the four essential building blocks of a happy home space, and that most design magazines only focused on presentation,” Sun says...
...drugs' potential benefits may extend well beyond their proven ability to prevent heart attacks and include such things as lowering the risk of stroke or possibly even Alzheimer's disease. Now comes word that statins may help reduce damage from the most common cause of irreversible blindness among older adults in the U.S.--adult macular degeneration...
When Charlie Ferguson was growing up in Beech Grove, Ind., he would help his dad, a connoisseur of spicy food, to plant and tend a backyard crop of chili peppers. So began a lifelong love affair with hot peppers. As an adult, Ferguson found commercial salsa either too salty or not spicy enough for his discerning palate, and he started making his own. By the time he married Glenda Klingensmith eight years ago and moved to her farm in Noblesville, Ind., Ferguson, now 52, was hooked on homemade salsa--so much so that he started planting jalapenos, habaneros, red chilis...
Kids don't much care about such things, but legions of adult Harry Potter fans are annoyed that author J.K. Rowling is dismissed by the world's literary gatekeepers, maybe because she happens to be the highest paid author ever and because she writes books that children love. But no one need worry that this rather quiet, funny, passionate writer won't get her due. Even as Rowling maintains her reclusive lifestyle, writing her sixth Potter book while her baby sleeps, her power has become too great to ignore. You can measure it in the numbers--254 million books sold...
...researchers' method was familiar to anyone who has been following the cloning parade from sheep to mice to other animals over the past several years. After harvesting 242 eggs from 16 female volunteers, Hwang and Moon removed the eggs' genetic material and replaced it with DNA extracted from adult cells donated by the same women. They then used tiny bursts of electricity to fuse together the donor material and egg. Nourished in dishes, 30 of the hybrid eggs developed into blastocysts--balls of hundreds of cells that represent one of the earliest stages of fetal development. When couples undergo...